Package and dispensing device for paper dishes



June 9, 1925.

P. R. SIMMONS PACKAGE AND DISPENSING DEVICE FOR PAPER DISHES Filed Jan. 1 1', 1924 INVENTOR. P/iz/z X. S/MMOMS.

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Patented June 9, 1925.

MITE ST PAUL R. SIMIVIONS, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOB TO PEERLESS PAPER IRCDUCTS COMPANY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, A CORPORATION.

PACKAGE AND DISPENSING DEVICE FOR PAPER DISHES.

Application filed January 11, 1924. Serial No. csaeoo.

To all whom it may 0011061 11:

Be it known that I, PAUL R. SIMMONS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new-and useful Package and Dispensing Device for Paper Dishes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals refer to like parts.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for storing, packing and distributing paper dishes and the like. The use of such articles has become enormous and, therefore, it is desirable thatthey be packed compactly and so as to preserve the shape and good quality offthe article and particularly in keepingthem from moisture and providing meanswhereby they may be singly and quickly removed for use at soda fountains, ice cream stores and the like.

One feature of the invention consists in a package or container for paper dishes made preferably of paperboard in tubular form of substantially the same diameter as the dishes and being scored twice vertically on one side and also transversely in several places so that beginning at the top one section of the scored part of the tubular container may be removed as the stack of paper dishes therein diminishes, to render the dishes at the top accessible for removal and yet protect the dishes below. In connection with the foregoing invention, is the paraffining of the scoring, as well as the interior of the tubular container so that prior to the removal of the dishes they will be protected from moisture. r

In addition to the foregoing the transverse scoring for the removal of the sections of the container isdownwardly curved or V-shaped so that dishes may be accessible to the fingers in removing the same and yet the lateral upper portions of the removable section of the container would extend above the stack of dishes to enable one to grasp the same when it is desired to remove such section.

Another feature of the invention consists in providing a holder made of metal or other suitable material for receiving said paper dish package and holding it in vertical position, the holding means including two vertical members or rods registering substantially with the vertical score lines between which the dishes one at a time are removed from the upper end of the stack. The scored sections of the container can also be removed between said holding members or rods. In connection with the foregoing is the pro- VlSlOIl of a spring support for the container of the dishes at the bottom of the holder and a holding lug to engage the upper end of the container when pressed down into the holder for firmly holding the latter in place.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims: a o

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevatron 1n perspective of the device showing it in condition for use and with the scored portion of the container partially removed and some'of the dishes removed. Fig. 2 is an elevation in perspective of the container. Fig. 3 is a front elevation in perspective of the holder for the dish container. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of a part of the latter and the container on the line H of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 shows a central portion of Fig. 1

after the stack of dishes has lowered below the lateral portions of the upper-removable section of the container. Fig. 6 is a portion of the container shown in Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale to show the paraffin. I

The dishes 10 herein shown are fluted paper dishes adapted for containing ice cream or any other edible. They are packed by stacking them in a container 11 which is preferably tubular and with the same internal diameter as the dishes and is preferably made of paperboard and has a removable cap 12 on the upper end. One side of the containerfhas two vertical score lines 13 extending from top to bottom, and at intervals there are transverse score lines 14 extending between said score lines 13 so as to divide the portion of the container between the score lines 13 into a number of sections, there being four in Fig. 2, which are capable of being removed separately. The score lines 1 1 are V -shape, but not necessarily so, although it is preferable that such lines slant or curve downwardly ends to the middle, substantially as shown for the purpose hereafter mentioned.

The interior of the container is coated from the with paraffin and also the score lines are filled with parafiin 16. The purpose of the paraffin treatment is to enable the container to keep the moisture away from the dishes, which is a very important matter as the dishes will flatten out and become defective if moisture is accessible them.

In F 8 there is shown a device for holding the package illustrated in Fig. 2. in vertical position for use as shown in Fig. 1. This device is made of metal and it has a base with a recess 21 on the top adapted to receive the lower end of the package. There are three rods extending upwardly from the base to point above the upper end of the packe when it is in the holder. The rear rod 221 a holdin pin 23 near its upper end in POSl'LlOD to ex gage the upper edge of the container when it is placed in the holder. There a spring :25 in the recess 21 of the base of the holder, as shown in 8 and l, which yieldingly supports he container 11 and when said container or iiackage is placed in the holder, it is pushed down on said spring until the top of the container passes under the pi and enables the latter to hold the container down and stationary in the holder.

There are two other rods or members 26 in the holder placed sons to be adjacent the vertical score lines 13 of the container when it is in the holoer, as-shown in Fig. 1. They have two or three functions, one of which is to cooperate with the rod 22 in holding the container in place in the holder. Another function is to engage the wall of the container near the vertical-score lines 13 so that when the dishes are removed or the removable sections of the container are torn away, as shown in Fig. 1, the walls of the container on each side of the opening will lie against the rods 26 and be braced and held in position thereby. This is import-ant be cause the dishes are removable one at a time and the hand is inserted each time to remove the dish and the dish is taken out through the opening, and without said rods to brace the holder, the walls at the side of the outlet would soon be broken down. The rods 26 also brace the container and hold it in position while a scored section is being removed, as that requires considerable force.

The paper dishes are packed in the tubular container 11', as shown, and when inserted in the holder, the cap 12 is removed and the upper scored section. The latter is removed in order to provide a lateral opening for the introduction of the hand to grasp the topdish and to permit the removal of said dish through the lateral opening in the container. As the stack diminishes, one scored section after another is removed from the container until it is emptied.

The advantage of transversely scoring the removable sections of the container so that the middle portion of the score line will extend downward and the lateral portion thereof will extend upward, as shown in Fig. 5, is twofold. One purpose is to enable the dishes to be accessible when the stack gets low, as shown in Fig. 5, and before the removal of the next section of the container, and a second purpose is to arrange such re movable section so that its lateral portions extend above the stack of dishes, whereby one may grasp either of said lateral portions in order to tear out and remove the section. Unless said lateral portions-extend above the stack of dishes, it would be impossible to grasp the upper part of the section in order to remove it.

The foregoingdevice is one of considerable practical utility for the rapid, convenie-nt, safe and sanitary holdingand dispensingof paper dishes and the like. The holder is of such diameter that the dishes will be forced into :the same and their shape will be maintained by the walls of-ithe holder and when a section of :tlieiconta-iner is torn out, the edge of the dishes will extend out so asto be accessible to one whiledesiring to remove the same.

The invention claimed is z 1. A container for paper dishes and the like, including a tube formed of paper board and the like with a vertical series'of sections in one side of the wall thereof made independently removable by score lines for making an opening in the side wall of the container for the removal of the paper dishes from the top of the stack thereof, substantially as set forth.

2. A container for paperdishes and the like, including a tube formed of paper board and the like with a :pair of vertical score .lines in one side of the wall thereof and a vertical series of transverse score lines extending between said vertical score lines to provide sections that are independently removable for obtaining an opening in the side wall of the container for the removal of the paper dishes from the top of a. stack therein.

3. A container for paper dishes and the like, including a tube formed of paper board and the like with a. pair of vertical score lines in one side of the wall thereof and a vertical series of transverse score lines between said vertical score lines to provide sections that are independently removable, each of said transverse score lines extending downward between its en=ds,.substantially as set forth.

4:. A container for. paper dishes and the like, including a tube formed of paper board and the like with a vertical series of sections in one side of the wall thereof :made independently removable byiscore lines for making an opening in the side wall of the container for the removal of the paper dishes from the top of a stack therein, and material filling said score lines for excluding moisture from the container.

5. A container for paper dishes and the like, including a tube formed of paper board and the like with a vertical series of sections in one side of the wall thereof made independently removable by score lines for making an opening in the side wall of the container for the removal of the paper dishes from the top of a stack therein, and external means engaging the portions of the container adjacent tosaid vertical score lines for holding the same in place when any of said sections are bein torn out, or dishes are being removed su stantially as set forth.

6. A container for paper dishes and the like, including a tube formed of paper board and the like with a vertical series of sections in one side of the wall thereof made independently removable by score lines for making an opening in the side wall of the container 'for the removal of the paper dishes from the top of a stack therein, and a vertical rod engaging the outer surface of the container beside each of said vertical score lines for holding the container in place when any of said sections are being torn out, or dishes being removed substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature.

PAUL R. SIMMONS. 

